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The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world with all its corruption and evils and cruelties and the splendid world of our imagination.

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Imagination,

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Richard Hofstadter
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Category: Imagination

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless of course you happen to be a bottle of wine.
  • 2. I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
  • 3. Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Trophies and medals have never meant much to me. I've had amazing experiences which let you feel like you've accomplished something.
  • 2. I hope I'm not a tourist attraction – I'm sure that they come here really because St. Andrews is just amazing a beautiful place.
  • 3. Big dress cocktails party – I love that. It is my work but my work allow me to have glamour to wear beautiful and amazing dresses to go to big ceremonies.

3 Anger

  • 1. I was a pretty angry kid and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
  • 2. He took over anger to intimidate subordinates and in time anger took over him.
  • 3. President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things distractions distortions smear fear anger frustration.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
  • 2. Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
  • 3. Next month I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.

5 Architecture

  • 1. What's fascinating about D.C. the exteriors are these elaborate structures this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework and then you go inside and it's crap-looking – apart from the White House which is beautiful.
  • 2. Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique poetic products of the heart.
  • 3. There is a powerful need for symbolism and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.
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